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108TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 108-42
PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 975, THE BANK-
RUPTCY ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONSUMER PROTEC-
TION ACT OF 2003
MARCH 18, 2003.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. SESSIONS, from the Committee on Rules,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. Res. 147]
The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House
Resolution 147, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to the House
with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION
The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 975, the Bank-
ruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2003,
under a structured rule. The rule provides one hour of general de-
bate, equally divided and controlled by the Chairman and ranking
minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. The rule
makes in order the amendment in the nature of a substitute rec-
ommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the
bill as an original bill for the purpose of amendment, which shall
be considered as read.
The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in this
report, and it provides that the amendments made in order may be
offered only in the order printed in this report, may be offered only
by a Member designated in this report, shall be considered as read,
shall be debatable for the time specified in this report equally di-
vided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not
be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for
a division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the
Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendments
printed in this report and provides one motion to recommit with or
without instructions.
The waiver of all points of order against consideration of the bill
in the rule includes a waiver of clause 4(a) of rule XIII (requiring
a three-day layover of the committee report), which is necessary be-
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